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• What India Gains (and loses) by Courting the Taliban | Girish Linganna

  11 October 2025

  by Girish Linganna
  (India Press Agency - October 10, 2025) In a move that would have seemed unthinkable just a few years ago, Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi arrived in New Delhi on October 9 for an eight-day official visit that marks a watershed moment in India’s foreign policy. His meetings with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, followed by visits to Islamic seminaries in Agra and Deoband, represent India’s most significant engagement yet with the Taliban regime. New (…)

• The rise of the mega-influencer | Phillip Dolitsky and Luke Moon

  11 October 2025

  October 2, 2025
  Mega-influencers shape the public imagination. And in a world where narratives matter more than facts, the imagination is where wars are won and lost.
  We are living in the late stages of an epistemological crisis. In our modern, AI-powered era, the very idea of truth

• The artificial political divide: How France

  11 October 2025

  October 6, 2025
  France

• Netanyahu shrinks amid Trump

  11 October 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  US President Donald Trump may be publicly telling Benjamin Netanyahu that the Gaza peace plan is his (Netanyahu

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  CPM Statement on the Attack on Chief Justice of India BR Gavai (Oct 6, 2025)

  11 October 2025

  CPI (M)
  October 6, 2025
  The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
  Condemn the Attack on CJI BR Gavai
  The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the act of throwing a shoe at the Chief Justice of India, B.R. Gavai. It demands that immediate action be taken against the concerned advocate, who is registered with the Supreme Court Bar Association and has been apprehended.
  It is highly shocking and (…)

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  The speech by Vice Chancellor of Delhi University at odds with constitutional promise of free speech

  11 October 2025

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  AIKS Team Visits Punjab, Extends Relief to Punjab Flood Affected People

  11 October 2025

  8 October 2025
  A delegation of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) today visited the flood-hit regions of Tarn Taran, Amritsar and Gurdaspur in Punjab to provide relief to the people affected. The team noted that the floods in Punjab have been unprecedented and in the affected regions they have meant total loss of standing crop, with reports of over 5 lakh acres of agricultural land being submerged.
  People accused the AAP state government in Punjab and the Narendra Modi-led BJP-NDA (…)

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  AITUC Condemns the Deplorable Act Against the Dignity of the Supreme Court and the Office of the Chief Justice of India

  11 October 2025

  All India Trade Union Congress expresses unequivocal condemnation at the outrageous and abhorrible attempt of a lawyer of the Supreme Court to hurl a shoe at the Chief Justice of India. This toxic, vicious, volatile and intense incident has pushed the country into the nadir of shame once again. This incidence is evidence of complete crystallization of the multiple dangerous trends that assault the constitutional ethos. This incident is an illustration of the tearing apart of the social and (…)

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  Statement on Nepal’s September Uprising: Beyond Spontaneous Rebellion | Radical Socialist

  11 October 2025

  The September 2025 uprising in Nepal forced Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli from office and left nineteen young people dead in the streets of Kathmandu. This event requires serious analysis from those committed to real social change. While we stand with the youth who risked their lives against a corrupt and violent state, we must also honestly assess what this movement achieved, what it failed to accomplish, and what it reveals about the possibilities and limits of spontaneous rebellion (…)

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  Review of Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp Selected Stories | Malathi Suramanian

  11 October 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
  by Banu Mushtaq
  (Booker Prize Winner 2025)
  Translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi
  Penguin Random House India
  2024
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  Reviewed by Dr. Malathi Suramanian